The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards
Mary married “Roger Blake of Pinhill” 178 . Very little documentary
evidence has been found for Philip but in 1519 he, along with Sir
Edward Hungerford and John Ernley were Trustees of the
Tropenall estates “for some minor of that family” Jackson notes 179 .
Philip died in 1521 180 .
The next heir was Robert III, born in 1492. He married Anne,
daughter of Robert Blake of Calne 181 , which sounds as though he
married a first cousin, not unknown and quite legal at the time.
177 From the Baynard memorial in St Cyriac’s.Brocklebank, Rev GR (1968) ibid p18
gives Azure a chevron between three pears pendant or
178 Burke (1858) History of the English Commoners vol 3 p 328
179 Aubrey, J ed Jackson JEJ (1861) Aubrey’s Wiltshire Collection, Jacksons
fn1 p82
180 VCH Hampshire and Isle of Wight vol 4 p54
181 The Blake family “resided for over 400 years [until sometime in the 18 th
century] at Pinhill, an old moated dwelling in Calne” Kite, Kite, E (1899) Wilts
Notes and Queries vol 3 p59. It was “named after a grove of pines that lined a
nearby summit” . This is almost certainly after Aubrey’s Natural History of
Wiltshire p57. Another derivation is given by Jones [ Jones, Rev A.N Notes
on Celtic elements in Wiltshire local names WAM XIV p157] – “Pinhill now
corrupted in Pennels near Calne. This word is simply reduplicative; one portion
being Celtic (pen = head or top) the other being Teutonic with similar
significance” and thus referring to the hill itself.
The house was much damaged, deliberately, by the Royalists in December, 1644
after they captured it from the Parliamentary forces that had, briefly, invested
it. The moat was drained as well. (MacLachlan, T [1977] The Civil War in
Wiltshire Rowan Books ISBN 0 9530785 0 7 pp200-201).Pinhill was restored
and returned to the Blake family after the Civil War.
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